· There (and Back Again), Stumptown Edition

Jonas and I had a pretty good time in PDX for the Stumptown Comics Fest over the weekend! I'll post more in my blog soon, but thought I'd share this apearance by Jonas and myself in Jesse's Diary Comic, we are the bewildered bearded dudes in the third panel:

· Family Style's Going to Stumptown

Jonas and François will be at this weekend's Stumptown Comics Fest in Family Style's home away from home, Portland, Oregon. Unfortunately, you won't find us on the official list of exhibitors; the show sold out and we weren't early enough with our application! Yikes! Happily, our old pal Eli Bishop of Global Hobo has agreed to squeeze us in at table #95! Huzzah! Please come by and say hi! We'll have a slightly edited selection of our comics, zines, and stationery, including the newly back-in-print Ochre Ellipse #1 and Friends #2!

"Extended Family" member Nick St. John's fantastic debut comic Further Notes on my Unfortunate Condition is currently under consideration for the Best American Non-Reguired Reading, a rather awesome anthology edited and selected by a panel of high school students along with series editor Dave Eggers and managing editor Jesse Nathan! Unlike most juried anthologies, the ABNR committee publishes their thoughts and comments as they work through the selection process... click here for the panel's discussion of Nick's awesome comic! Like what you hear? You can grab a copy in our catalog! And of course, please keep your fingers crossed for Nick!

· Mini-Comp Sketchbook

I've had these up on Etsy for a little while, but my hand-made Mini-Comp sketchbooks are newly up on our slowly expanding Crafts catalog page... I've been making these in little batches lately. The covers are reused cardboard lids from envelope boxes... how nice that they print them with that great "composition book" pattern! Each one is hand bound and trimmed, using some of the fancy tools at my lovely workplace, Hello Lucky! Fun Stuff! Get yours today!

· Ochre Ellipse Wins Isotope Award!

Family Style's resident artistic genius, Jonas Madden-Connor, won the Isotope Comics' Award for Excellence in Mini-Comics last night! Our pride knows no bounds! Come by APE today and say hi! Or, check out our catalog to purchase this great book!

· Ignatz Nominee in the Family!

We are so proud to announce that one of Family Style's founding and central members, Jonas Madden-Connor, has been nominated for an Ignatz Award for best Mini Comic of 2008! Congratulations, Jonas!

Click here to buy this amazing comic!

· Family Reunion!

You may or may not know that Family Style has had a hand in running the San Francisco Zine Fest for the last three years... well, this year we are holding a very special Family Reunion panel there! We will be getting the Family Style founding members together for a rollicking discussion of the F.S. Jamboree, the pitfalls of colaborative creation, and the crazy inter-personal drama the project created for us! It should be a seriously hilarious and potentially enlightening panel for anyone who is thinking of creating a collaborative, community-based project, or any one who wants to get to know us better than they already do! It looks like pretty much all of our original members (Beth Bouffard, Chris Brennan, Jonas Madden-Connor, François Vigneault, Antonio & Pablo Roman-Alcala, Gabe Ramos, Jenny Dickow, and Sarah Gion, thus far!) have signed on. So we'll see on Sunday, July 20, at the SF County Fair Building!